Cortana arrives on Xbox One for preview members
Microsoft is releasing a new Xbox One update for its preview members today, and it includes access to Cortana for the first time. While Microsoft had originally planned to introduce Cortana for Xbox ...
American Airlines signs contract with ViaSat for in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its planes, ending Gogo's exclusivity
An American Airlines jet sits at the gate at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. (Susan Walsh / Associated Press) — ViaSat Inc. will provide satellite-powered Wi-Fi …
Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter and Pinterest accounts hacked, LinkedIn password dump likely to blame
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks - it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to.
Jacob Appelbaum, Digital Rights Activist, Leaves Tor Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations
On Thursday, the Tor Project quietly announced the departure of leading digital rights activist Jacob Appelbaum from its board. At first, they didn't say why — now, we know.
Over 100M records from Russian social media site VK, with unencrypted passwords, names, emails, and phone numbers, on sale by hacker named Peace for 1 bitcoin
Accounts for over 100 million users of popular social media site VK.com are being traded on the digital underground.
How the full dump of LinkedIn passwords from 2012 hack will speed cracking of hashed passwords from any future breaches
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After acquisition by Google, Nest got “virtually unlimited budget”, quadrupled employees, had no new products, caused constant bad PR, and may be for sale now
Nest quadrupled its employees, launched no new products, and caused constant bad PR.
France is seeking €356M from Priceline's Booking.com for unpaid taxes between 2003 and 2012, SEC filing shows
French tax authorities are seeking 356 million euros ($397.37 million) in unpaid taxes from Booking.com, a unit of Priceline Group (PCLN.O), the latest multinational …
Ex-Facebook employee reflects on company's culture and how Mark Zuckerberg responded to the launch of Google+ by enforcing a company “lockdown”
In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect.
US Supreme Court rejects Google's bid to throw out a class action lawsuit alleging deceptive Adword ad placement practices
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Google Inc's bid to throw out a class action lawsuit involving claims that the company deceived California advertisers …
Someone is distributing fake versions of ISIS Android apps, prompting infiltration fears among terror group's supporters
When they say, “There's an app for everything,” terror propaganda is no exception. In the past six months, the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, or Daesh) and its news agency …
With fewer than 500K Steam Machines sold in the last seven months, Valve's SteamOS appears dead in the water
Sales of under 500,000 machines so far show an utter lack of market demand. — It's been about seven months now since Valve officially got into the hardware business with its Steam Machines …
Athletes will test Visa's prototype NFC payment ring at the Olympics in Rio
here come debit rings Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Visa made an NFC mobile payment ring for Olympic athletes in Rio Edward C. Baig / USA Today : Visa shows ring Olympians can use to pay in Rio Ben Fox ...
Dozens in Russia imprisoned for social media likes, reposts
TVER, Russia (AP) — Anastasia Bubeyeva shows a screenshot on her computer of a picture of a toothpaste tube with the words: “Squeeze Russia out of yourself!” For sharing this picture on a social medi...
iPad Pro 9.7" review: same performance on CPU-bound tasks as the 12.9" model, True Tone display works exactly as intended and is one of tablet's best features
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UK's Government Digital Service decided apps were too expensive to build and maintain, went with responsive websites; Treasury says $8.2B was saved over 4 years
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Airbnb struggles against racial discrimination on its user-to-user marketplace
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Facebook is disabling messaging in its mobile web app to push people to Messenger
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
To earn trust, social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat must have transparent and consistent policies and commit to free expression
BuzzFeed : Tweets: @jayrosen_nyu and @digiphile Tweets: Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu : Good start on the trust conversation for platforms by @BuzzFeedBen, @nabihasyed http://medium.com/... Recommended. ...
Qadium raises $20M Series A led by NEA's Scott Sandell for its B2B IoT search and vulnerability detection engine
Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes : Tweets: @stevelord Tweets: @stevelord : US gov funded shodan clone scans your networks and stores results forever http://twitter.com/...
US tech firms use joint ventures and partners to better overcome hurdles and comply with Chinese regulations
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GoPro hangs turnaround hopes on its software division, which this year will launch an iMovie competitor and a cloud backend to tie the GoPro ecosystem together
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.